. >> and tell us about the results affecting hamid karzai. >> well, the election results won't be in for a few days, but in the next days we will get a better indication of who is in the lead. the indications so far the two main candidates abdullah abdullah and ashrah rawny, and if so, they will possibly have a runoff and not have a new president in place before the summer. right now, they are counting the votes, and some allegations of irregularities and corruption, but nothing like 2009. and just going back to the conversation that you were having with david. in 2009, the election was widely considered corrupt, and 20% of all of the votes had to to be discounted, because they were considered fraudulent, and that gave the taliban and other extremist groups, because it is not just the taliban operating here, but moral authority, and ammunition, that we are fighting against an unjust illegitimate government propped bip the united states. if there is a real election, and the afghans feel that their votes were counted and counted properly, it is harder for the taliban to explain why the